POLICE ROUNDUP

Robbery suspect shot dead

BAGUIO CITY -- A robbery suspect was declared dead on arrival in the Baguio General Hospital after he was recently shot dead in front of Pelizloy building along Session road here.

Police said suspect, Abraham Unday, 26, single, a taxi driver and a resident of North Sanitary Camp together with two more suspects identified as Lilia Sibayan, 39, of North Sanitary Camp and Jojo Uplas, 30, a resident of Kayang hilltop here, allegedly attempted to rob a cop identified as Raniel Wate, 29, a resident of Private road, Barangay Trancoville.

Police said, Unday suffered a head gun wound after both Wate and the suspect struggled to grab the victim's firearm.


2 tinker with WW II bomb, lose hands

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – A policeman and a civilian lost their hands after a vintage bomb exploded while they were tinkering with it in Cagayan Tuesday.

Chief Insp. Juan Taguinod, police chief of Peñablanca town, said farmer Juan Achanzar, 47, found the bomb in a nearby village and sought the help of PO3 Victor Hernandez, 45, of the service division of the regional police, to dispose of it.

But out of curiosity, the two tinkered with the bomb and struck it, causing it to explode. – CL


Thief fools teacher

BAGUIO CITY -- After an unidentified thief told a school teacher his phone fell off his pocket, the latter found his mobile phone worth P16 thousand lost last week.

Police identified the victim as Raul Pocais, 44, married, a school teacher of Irisan, here.

Police said the crime was committed along Harrison road, after an unidentified male suspect boarded and sat beside the victim inside a public jeepney bound for Trancoville.

The alleged suspect later informed Pocais that his phone fell-off and a certain street sweeper got the gadget, letting him step off the vehicle and run after the supposed culprit, but later realized he was tricked by the real thief. -- Louis Serran


2 men nabbed for rape in Ifugao

LAGAWE, Ifugao – Two men were nabbed for rape in the province last week.

On May 25, cops of Lagawe under Chief Investigator arrested Thomas Dinamling Bulangnget, 26, of Barangay Olilicon here.

Dumanling nephew of the victim, was arrested following an arrest warrant issued by Judge Joseph Baguilat, presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 14.

Baguilat was jailed at the Ifugao District Jail in Barangay Baguinge, Kiangan town. Based on police record, said wanted person raped his aunt at about 10 a.m. on March 11.

Cherry Bangiyan Napachao, 22, driver by profession, resident of Barangay Monggayang, Aguinaldo, Ifugao was also arrested for rape by the Aguinaldo cops headed by Insp. Damiel T. Kinakin.

Judge Efren Cacatchan trail court Branch 15 in Alfonso Lista ordered Napachao’s arrest recommending no bail.


Three men snatch maid’s cell phone

BAGUIO CITY -- Three suspects of alleged theft were brought to the Police station 7 – SM branch, after taking the 10-thousand worth cellphone of a housemaid.

Victim Jenalyn Olinan, 19, single, of First road, Quezon hill here, with her employer Jairo Jaime, came to the police office and filed complaint.

Investigators said, suspects Marvin Valenson, 26, single, of Lopez Jaena St.; Frederick Agoyos, 23, single, of P. Burgos St. and William Tome, 19, single, of San Carlos Heights, allegedly snatched the victim’s cell phone around 3 p.m.here at the Lower ground floor of SM City.

The victim, later withdrew her complaint, after the three suspects' guardians offered to pay 4,500 pesos t the victim to settle the dispute. -Louis Serran


Baguio execs, cops start ‘war’ against sex videos
By Aileen P. Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY – The city government has started heightened campaign they called “war” against lewd video materials in the city.

The city council last week asked the city police and other concerned agencies here to implement penal provisions of the law banning display and sale of sex videos in the city.

The move initiated by Councilor Betty Lourdes Tabanda was an offshoot of the celebrated Hayden Kho-Katrina Halili sex video scandal which has resulted to enhanced operations against video piracy and pornographic video articles in Metro Manila as of late.

“With the onset of the digital age, the proliferation of videos and presentations/shows in the market poses a threat to the morality of the general public which include the youth and children,” Tabanda noted in the resolution approved by the city council.

Tabanda said the sex videos project women in general as “sex objects and degrades then thus dehumanize them.”

“The display and sale of sex videos in public places for commercial purposes is detrimental to the development of the young and destroys the very fiber of decent standards which the city propagates,” the resolution noted.

“Thus there is a need to immediately ban all these sex videos which exhibit lewd and obscene scenes that are unacceptable and against the moral teachings and doctrines.”

Tabanda said the law governing the display and sale of these pornographic articles contains a penal provision that can be implemented by lawmen.

The drive against lewd videos is in line with the provisions of the Local Government Code which authorizes local government units to implement measures to improve public morals.

She said this is also in line with the Gender Equality and Development Code which promotes programs and projects that are gender sensitive and gender fair.